Under My Thumb
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"Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards
for The Rolling Stones
. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966
's Aftermath. Although it was never released as a single, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of compilations.
It was during a performance of this song at the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert that the Hells Angels
, who were acting as security for the band, stabbed Meredith Hunter
to death. It is a common misconception that Hunter was stabbed while the band was playing Sympathy for the Devil
. The events appear in the Gimme Shelter
movie.
"Under My Thumb" was featured prominently by the band on their 1981 USA Tour and 1982 European tour as the opening number at each concert. The Stones have played the song sporadically on subsequent tours in 1997-98 and 2006.
Like many of the songs from the Aftermath period, "Under My Thumb" uses more novel instrumentation than that featured on previous Stones records, including fuzz bass lines (played by Bill Wyman
), and marimba
riffs played by Brian Jones
, which provide the song's most prominent hook.
The lyrics, which savour the successful 'taming of the shrew
' and compare the woman in question to a "pet", a "cat" and a "squirming dog" provoked some negative reactions, especially amongst feminists, who objected to what they took as the suppressive sexual politics
of the male narrator. Camille Paglia
, for example, reports that her admiration and defense of "Under My Thumb" marked the beginning of a rift between her and the radical feminists
of the late 1960s.
at the notorious Altamont concert in 1969. The Stones were just finishing up the number when a fight broke out between Hells Angels
on the security detail and concertgoers, ultimately culminating in the stabbing of Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro
after Hunter pulled out a gun.
and Keith Richards
, on drugs charges, The Who
recorded covers of "Under My Thumb" and "The Last Time
" as a single. The intention was to help Jagger and Richards make bail, but by the time the single was made available, they had been released. A version by The Who is available on the 1998 reissue of the band's Odds & Sods. The version released on Odds & Sods is not the original single version, but an unfinished mix that omits the lead guitar part.
Blind Faith
covered the song at their 1969 debut in Hyde Park
.
Del Shannon
covered the song on his 1972 collection The Del Shannon Anniversary Album. It had previously been a chart single, reaching #128 in September 1966.
Iowan group, Truth and Janey
, covered it for their 1976 release, No Rest for the Wicked.
Fast radio did an Italo disco
girl-group remake of the Rolling Stones classic in 1983.
The doom metal
band Pentagram
also recorded a cover of Under My Thumb in the 1970s. Originally released as a 7" single, it can now be found on their 2006 album First Daze Here Too.
Canadian rock band Streetheart
recorded a cover of Under My Thumb in 1979. Streetheart's cover was their biggest hit on the Canadian Top 40 charts.
In the early 1980s, punk band Social Distortion
covered the song before the release of their first LP. This version is now available on their rarities collection, Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past
. In the mid-1990s they re-recorded it as a hidden track on their album, White Light, White Heat, White Trash
, and also on Live at the Roxy
, as it had become a live staple for the band.
"Weird Al" Yankovic
used part of this song in his Rolling Stones medley "Hot Rocks Polka".
Comedian
Sam Kinison
recorded a version as part of his album Leader of the Banned.
The song was covered by Michael Hutchence
of INXS
, on the album Symphonic Music of The Rolling Stones, released in 1994.
Chicago-based rock band The Hounds covered the song on the album Puttin' on the Dog in 1979 under the Columbia Records
label.
Chilean rock band Los Miserables
recorded a Spanish-language cover of "Under My Thumb", based on the Social Distortion's
version. In this version, "Bajo este Sol" ("Under this Sun"), the lyrics are unrelated to the original work, conserving only the melodic line of the Rolling Stones' original. Bajo este Sol is included in the album Date Cuenta (2000).
A cover of the song came in 1974 by Wayne Gibson
, who had initially recorded the track in 1966 for Columbia Records. His cover was re-released on the Pye
label where it reached the top 20 in the UK singles chart, with Gibson performing the song on popular TV shows of the time such as BBC's Top of the Pops
and Crackerjack and on Granada
's Pop Show 45.
Industrial metal band Ministry
with Burton C. Bell
covered "Under My Thumb" on their 2008 covers album Cover Up
, with some minor lyrical changes. This version was nominated for the 51st Grammy Awards
for Best Metal Performance.
Tina Turner
recorded the song on her second solo album Acid Queen
in 1975.
The Irish punk rock band The Boomtown Rats
featured a cover of the song redubbed as "Under Their Thumb... Is Under My Thumb" with new lyrics written by Bob Geldof
on their 1981 album Mondo Bongo
Catalan music Pascal Comelade
recorded an instrumental version of the song in his 2008 Stones cover album Compassió pel dimoni distributed exclusively with Enderrock magazine.
La Roux
have covered the track in live sets. A studio recording was included on the Sidetracked
mixtape in 2010.
Tim Urban
performed a reggae version of this during the Top 12 week of Season 9 of American Idol
on March 16, 2010.
The Pietasters
, a Washington, D.C. ska/soul band, recorded a studio version of the song for their 1996 Comply album.
A live version by Terence Trent D'Arby appears on his 2006 compilation album Do You Love Me Like You Say.
Courtney Love
performed a live version.
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
and Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
for The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966
1966 in music
-Events:*January 3 – Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work it Out".*January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who...
's Aftermath. Although it was never released as a single, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of compilations.
It was during a performance of this song at the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert that the Hells Angels
Hells Angels
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a worldwide one-percenter motorcycle gang and organized crime syndicate whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Their primary motto...
, who were acting as security for the band, stabbed Meredith Hunter
Meredith Hunter
Meredith Curly Hunter was a male spectator at the Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling Stones, Hunter pulled out a gun after being punched by a Hells Angel and was then stabbed to death by a Hells Angel serving as a security guard...
to death. It is a common misconception that Hunter was stabbed while the band was playing Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil
"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger credited to Jagger/Richards...
. The events appear in the Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter (documentary)
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour, which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. The film is named after "Gimme Shelter", the lead track from The Rolling...
movie.
"Under My Thumb" was featured prominently by the band on their 1981 USA Tour and 1982 European tour as the opening number at each concert. The Stones have played the song sporadically on subsequent tours in 1997-98 and 2006.
Lyrics and music
The song's lyrics are an examination of a sexual power struggle, in which Jagger's lyrics celebrate the satisfaction of finally having controlled and gained leverage over a previously pushy, dominating woman. Jagger later reflected on the track in a 1995 interview: "It's a bit of a jokey number, really. It's not really an anti-feminist song any more than any of the others... Yes, it's a caricature, and it's in reply to a girl who was a very pushy woman".Like many of the songs from the Aftermath period, "Under My Thumb" uses more novel instrumentation than that featured on previous Stones records, including fuzz bass lines (played by Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
), and marimba
Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
riffs played by Brian Jones
Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones , known as Brian Jones, was an English musician and a founding member of the Rolling Stones....
, which provide the song's most prominent hook.
The lyrics, which savour the successful 'taming of the shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
' and compare the woman in question to a "pet", a "cat" and a "squirming dog" provoked some negative reactions, especially amongst feminists, who objected to what they took as the suppressive sexual politics
Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics is a classic feminist text written by Kate Millett, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire"....
of the male narrator. Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia , is an American author, teacher, and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1984...
, for example, reports that her admiration and defense of "Under My Thumb" marked the beginning of a rift between her and the radical feminists
Radical feminism
Radical feminism is a current theoretical perspective within feminism that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on an assumption that "male supremacy" oppresses women...
of the late 1960s.
Altamont death
The song was also notable for its (coincidental) connection with the death of Meredith HunterMeredith Hunter
Meredith Curly Hunter was a male spectator at the Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling Stones, Hunter pulled out a gun after being punched by a Hells Angel and was then stabbed to death by a Hells Angel serving as a security guard...
at the notorious Altamont concert in 1969. The Stones were just finishing up the number when a fight broke out between Hells Angels
Hells Angels
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a worldwide one-percenter motorcycle gang and organized crime syndicate whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Their primary motto...
on the security detail and concertgoers, ultimately culminating in the stabbing of Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro
Alan Passaro
Alan David Passaro was a Hells Angels member known for the December 6, 1969, stabbing of Meredith Hunter to death at the Altamont Free Concert during The Rolling Stones' set, as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter. Charged with murder, Passaro was tried in a court of law in January...
after Hunter pulled out a gun.
Cover versions
In 1967, after the imprisonment of Mick JaggerMick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
and Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
, on drugs charges, The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
recorded covers of "Under My Thumb" and "The Last Time
The Last Time (song)
In 1967, after the imprisonment of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, on drugs charges, The Who recorded covers of "The Last Time" and "Under My Thumb" as a single. The intention was to help Jagger and Richards make bail, but by the time the single was made available, they had been released. The...
" as a single. The intention was to help Jagger and Richards make bail, but by the time the single was made available, they had been released. A version by The Who is available on the 1998 reissue of the band's Odds & Sods. The version released on Odds & Sods is not the original single version, but an unfinished mix that omits the lead guitar part.
Blind Faith
Blind Faith
Blind Faith were an English blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969...
covered the song at their 1969 debut in Hyde Park
Hyde Park, London
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine...
.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon
Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit, "Runaway", in 1961.- Biography :...
covered the song on his 1972 collection The Del Shannon Anniversary Album. It had previously been a chart single, reaching #128 in September 1966.
Iowan group, Truth and Janey
Truth and Janey
Truth and Janey was an American rock band from Iowa. It took its name from Jeff Beck's Truth album and member Billy Janey's last name. The group was influenced by such power trios as Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band toured with Leslie West and performed a music festival with Blue...
, covered it for their 1976 release, No Rest for the Wicked.
Fast radio did an Italo disco
Italo disco
Italo disco encompasses much of the dance music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of mostly electronic dance music and evolved during the late 1970s and early 1980s in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and other parts of Europe...
girl-group remake of the Rolling Stones classic in 1983.
The doom metal
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
band Pentagram
Pentagram (band)
Pentagram is a American heavy metal band from Virginia, most famous as one of the pioneers of doom metal. The band was prolific in the underground scene of the 1970s, producing many demos and rehearsal tapes, but did not release a full-length album until reforming in the early 1980s with an almost...
also recorded a cover of Under My Thumb in the 1970s. Originally released as a 7" single, it can now be found on their 2006 album First Daze Here Too.
Canadian rock band Streetheart
Streetheart (band)
Streetheart is a Canadian rock band, from Winnipeg, Manitoba that got its start in Regina, Saskatchewan. Their best known songs include "Action", "Hollywood", "Teenage Rage", "One More Time", "Tin Soldier", "What Kind of Love is This", and their disco remake of "Under My Thumb".-Biography:Keyboard...
recorded a cover of Under My Thumb in 1979. Streetheart's cover was their biggest hit on the Canadian Top 40 charts.
In the early 1980s, punk band Social Distortion
Social Distortion
Social Distortion is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and David Hidalgo, Jr...
covered the song before the release of their first LP. This version is now available on their rarities collection, Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past
Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past
Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past is a collection of early recordings by Social Distortion. It was released on July 18, 1995, and contains songs which were recorded in 1981. It is a collection of singles and B-sides that had never appeared on any of the band's full-length albums...
. In the mid-1990s they re-recorded it as a hidden track on their album, White Light, White Heat, White Trash
White Light, White Heat, White Trash
White Light, White Heat, White Trash is the fifth album by American punk rock band, Social Distortion, released on September 17, 1996, by Epic Records. The album was produced by Michael Beinhorn. White Light, White Heat, White Trash is the last Social Distortion album to feature guitarist Dennis...
, and also on Live at the Roxy
Live at the Roxy (Social Distortion album)
Live at the Roxy is a live album by the Southern California punk rock group Social Distortion. It was released on June 30, 1998, on their own Time Bomb label...
, as it had become a live staple for the band.
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
used part of this song in his Rolling Stones medley "Hot Rocks Polka".
Comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
Sam Kinison
Sam Kinison
Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect genre humor...
recorded a version as part of his album Leader of the Banned.
The song was covered by Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
of INXS
INXS
INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...
, on the album Symphonic Music of The Rolling Stones, released in 1994.
Chicago-based rock band The Hounds covered the song on the album Puttin' on the Dog in 1979 under the Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
label.
Chilean rock band Los Miserables
Los Miserables
Los Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary...
recorded a Spanish-language cover of "Under My Thumb", based on the Social Distortion's
Social Distortion
Social Distortion is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and David Hidalgo, Jr...
version. In this version, "Bajo este Sol" ("Under this Sun"), the lyrics are unrelated to the original work, conserving only the melodic line of the Rolling Stones' original. Bajo este Sol is included in the album Date Cuenta (2000).
A cover of the song came in 1974 by Wayne Gibson
Wayne Gibson
Wayne Gibson was the stage name of Edward William "Bill" Allen . He was a British pop singer who had two hits on the UK singles chart, "Kelly" in 1964 and "Under My Thumb" in 1974.-Career:...
, who had initially recorded the track in 1966 for Columbia Records. His cover was re-released on the Pye
Pye Records
Pye Records was a British record label. In its first incarnation, perhaps Pye's best known artists were Lonnie Donegan , Petula Clark , The Searchers , The Kinks , Sandie Shaw and Brotherhood of Man...
label where it reached the top 20 in the UK singles chart, with Gibson performing the song on popular TV shows of the time such as BBC's Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
and Crackerjack and on Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
's Pop Show 45.
Industrial metal band Ministry
Ministry (band)
Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...
with Burton C. Bell
Burton C. Bell
Burton Christopher Bell is an American musician. Bell is best known as the frontman of the metal band Fear Factory where he is the only consistent member. His singing style mixes clean vocals with death growls.-Fear Factory:...
covered "Under My Thumb" on their 2008 covers album Cover Up
Cover Up (Ministry album)
Cover Up is an album of cover versions by Ministry & Co-Conspirators released on April 1, 2008. The album includes previously released covers "Roadhouse Blues", "Lay Lady Lay" and "Supernaut". Cover Up was supposedly Ministry's final release before their three year break up from 2008 to 2011...
, with some minor lyrical changes. This version was nominated for the 51st Grammy Awards
51st Grammy Awards
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, jointly winning five awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year...
for Best Metal Performance.
Tina Turner
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
recorded the song on her second solo album Acid Queen
Acid Queen (album)
-Personnel:* Tina Turner – lead vocals* Ike Turner – vocals on "Baby Get it On"* Ed Greene – drums* Henry Davis – bass guitar* Ray Parker Jr. – guitars* Spencer Proffer – guitars* Jerry Peters – keyboard instruments...
in 1975.
The Irish punk rock band The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.-Biography:All six members were originally from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland...
featured a cover of the song redubbed as "Under Their Thumb... Is Under My Thumb" with new lyrics written by Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
on their 1981 album Mondo Bongo
Mondo Bongo
Mondo Bongo was The Boomtown Rats fourth album and included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK charts in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard " which made No...
Catalan music Pascal Comelade
Pascal Comelade
Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade , is a French Catalan musician.Comelade born was in Montpellier, France. After living for several years in Barcelona, he made his first album, Fluences, influenced by electronic music and by the group Heldon.Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is...
recorded an instrumental version of the song in his 2008 Stones cover album Compassió pel dimoni distributed exclusively with Enderrock magazine.
La Roux
La Roux
La Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...
have covered the track in live sets. A studio recording was included on the Sidetracked
Sidetracked (La Roux album)
In July 2010, La Roux curated and mixed the latest volume of Sidetracked, a compilation series from Renaissance that allows artists from the electronic field a free rein to showcase their musical interests...
mixtape in 2010.
Tim Urban
Tim Urban
Timothy Joseph "Tim" Urban is an American singer-songwriter from Duncanville, Texas, who was the seventh place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol. Urban's debut album and EP titled Heart of Me is due for a November 8, 2010, iTunes release. Hard copies of the EP are on sale on his...
performed a reggae version of this during the Top 12 week of Season 9 of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
on March 16, 2010.
The Pietasters
The Pietasters
The Pietasters are a seven-piece ska/soul band hailing from Washington, D.C., with additional members from Maryland and Virginia.- History :In 1990, a group of friends were attending college at Virginia Tech in the mountains of Virginia...
, a Washington, D.C. ska/soul band, recorded a studio version of the song for their 1996 Comply album.
A live version by Terence Trent D'Arby appears on his 2006 compilation album Do You Love Me Like You Say.
Courtney Love
Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...
performed a live version.
External links
- Complete Official Lyrics (incomplete link)